Español homophones

gama/gamma

"gama" (#5,209 written frequency) beats "gamma" (#18,846) in this 2-word /ˈgama/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈgama/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "gama" leads at #5,209, with "gamma" trailing at #18,846.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "gam" then splits - "gama" (4 letters) vs "gamma" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across gama, gamma: agm. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • gama

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory agm · no private letters vs siblings

  • gamma

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV

    Inventory agm · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "gama" when you mean: Escala musical.
  • Write "gamma" when you mean: Tercera letra del alfabeto griego.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • gamaagma · gaam · ggama · gmaa
  • gammaagmma · gamam · ggamma · gmama

Each spelling

gama

noun · /ˈgama/ · #5,209 frequency

Escala musical.

gamma

noun · /ˈgama/ · #18,846 frequency

Tercera letra del alfabeto griego.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list